About this artwork
Having turned to art after a brief stint as a Wall Street commodities trader, Jeff Koons creates beautifully crafted and often controversial sculptures. An elaborate, Rococostyle mirror, Christ and the Lambis also a visual puzzle: its frame shapes the mirror surface into the figure of the infant Jesus playing with a lamb, taken from Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (1508; Musée du Louvre, Paris). Viewers thus see their own image superimposed on the body of the Christ Child. Koons has said, “Anything that reflects has a kind of spiritual transcendence because it involves the viewer. It acknowledges your presence. Every time you move, the reflection changes; it always acknowledges you.”
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Status
- On View, Gallery 292
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Department
- Contemporary Art
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Artist
- Jeff Koons
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Title
- Christ and the Lamb
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- 1988
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Medium
- Gilded wood and mirror; edition number one of three, with one artist's proof
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Dimensions
- 200.7 × 139.7 × 17.8 cm (79 × 55 × 7 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection
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Reference Number
- 2015.140
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